Resolved Why is the backup size smaller than the database?

[Jonatan442]

Hello.
My site database has more than 7 GB.
But when I do a full backup of the site, the backup is only 1GB.
It's normal?

 

[gbotica]

Hi,

Most likely ths is because the DB backup is compressed with gzip.

 

[24x7cloudservermanagement]

database backup file is a compressed file that is with .sql extension which is a dump of the database and in zip format and hence you see the smaller size of the database , however its recommended to take database backup seperate just to make sure you have a working backup and not a corrupted one.